Essences

Monster Essences
   Monster Essences are in a way the essence of Archlight Online. Pre-awakening from level 1-1500 is sort of a tutorial for the game, once you awaken you will find that hunting the same monsters or even doing monster tasks will yield little awakened experience.   What to do next? Well, quests and dungeons still give good exp, as well as gathering professions such as mining, fishing, skinning, wood cutting. Those are all limited activities, so what do you do with the rest of your time? Farm Monster Essences(!ME)  Monster Essences can give 1 of 4 outcomes; 1. EXP, 2.GOLD, 3.Archlight Tokens(AT), 4.Upgrade items(upgrade stone, legendary stone, awakened stone, relic stone, soul soil, awakened soul stone, relic soul stone, rune soil, awakened rune stone, relic rune stone, stat stone, large stat stone, ancient stat stone. Stronger monsters have better chance for better upgrade items.).  Boss monsters can drop ME's but they will be completely nerfed to nothing/near nothing, because boss ME's would be OP  Players have a base 2.5% chance((random integer between 1 and 10,000)/250) to get a !ME when killing a monster, you can improve this by raising your personal essence %; via Prosperity Stat(+0.25% essence find per point) or equipping armor/accessories. Signet ring/Prismatic ring/Butterfly ring, Minor Oblation amulet, and every piece of armor in the game give essence %, the starter equipment gives +1% each, some better equipment like renegade set and prismatic set give 2% essence find each piece of the set. Upgrading your armor also enhances essence % find, later game a +26 Reforged Mastercraft piece gives +7% essence find. Tanning skill gives prosperity at the following levels:  You can also spend Achievement Points on Perks in the donation store to increase your essence%   <BR> You must buy these essence perks in order from 1-5, they are additive, +2% +4% +6% +8% +10%, over all +30% essence find for 92 Achievement Points(2/5/10/25/50 AP respectively) <BR> The other tab highlighted in the red box is the Guild Perks tab, if you are the guild leader of a guild you can buy additional perks for all members in your guild, these cost Gold to purchase instead of Achievement points, 2kk,5kk,25kk,150kk,500kk gold for each of these 5 guild perks which can total another +30% essence find<BR> If you are not the guild leader you may be requested to donate to the guild bank fund to purchase these guild perks as they are quite pricy<BR> <BR> Certain Companions [] and sometimes cosmetics(christmas present box wings) gives essence% as well.<BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> Now that you've got some essence% going(60,80,100%~) you may be wondering why you aren't getting !ME's all over the place, the answer to that is the essence% value is multiplicative of the base 2.5% essence find, meaning that having 50% essence find means your total is 3.75% chance per monster, 100% essence find is 5% per monster, 200% essence find is 7.5% per monster, etc.<BR>
 * 20 Skill = +1 Intelligence + Prosperity
 * 40 Skill = +2 Intelligence + Prosperity
 * 60 Skill = +3 Intelligence+ Prosperity
 * 70 Skill = +4 Intelligence + Prosperity
 * 80 Skill = +5 Intelligence + Prosperity
 * 90 Skill = +7 Intelligence + Prosperity
 * 100 Skill = +10 Intelligence + Prosperity
 * 110 Skill = +15 Intelligence + Prosperity
 * 120 Skill = +25 Intelligence + Prosperity

((random integer between 1 and 10,000)/250) x (1 + (essence%(50% = 0.5, 100% = 1)) /100) or simplified 2.5% x 1.5 = 3.75% total per kill

<BR> Don't neglect your core stats to dump everything into prosperity, high essence% won't matter if you can't kill fast or even survive. But if you want to get to level A.1000, then you should get your prosperity stat to 200+(base 120 with large stat stones, 75/75 awakened prosperity and a few armor polish boosts) by level A300-A500, aim for 150+ essence% at least, the best players have over 200 essence%<BR> <BR>

Experience Boosters
<BR> <BR> <BR> You can consume 1 of each type of Experience booster and they will all stack to increase the value of EXP !ME's but you can't stack 2 of the same type([]), they also stack with experience boost from the boost points menu. The daily hunting experience bonus shown in red will NOT stack for ME's.<BR> <BR> <BR>

How !ME's work when hunting in a party
When hunting in a party, essence find works a bit differently. First a player in the party is selected randomly anytime a player in the party kills a monster, even if you didn't participate in killing that particular monster you can still be selected to recieve the !ME chance; the more players in your party the less chance you have to win this first selection. 2-4 players is generally the best sized team but a few more isn't bad especially if it helps you clear faster/more efficiently. After the player is chosen, they then have a ((random integer between 1 and 10,000)/300) x (1 + (personal essence%) / 100) this is slightly easier to succeed, but because of the initial party selection being at least 1/2 for the smallest party of 2, the over all chances of winning !ME is lower.

Where to Farm?
<BR> Take into consideration the respawn shape/rate of the spawn you are considering farming. Rifts are one of/the best places to farm ME's from the epics on the bottom floor [] type !rift on Default channel to see when the next rift is opening.<BR> The Exp values may be different for you, I collected these values with tier 4 character Experience perk, tier 2 guild Experience perk, Premium account +10% experience, no catch up experience, no experience boosters. The important part is to compare the monsters to each other <BR> <BR> The following table is full of awakened quest monsters from sharptooth - cooking up a storm, in these quests it is possible to farm but the power of these monsters far exceeds the reward for farming them, so its less optimal. <BR> <BR> <BR> The following table is full of Forgotten Island monsters which are all great for farming, nearly/as good as rift epics but require completion of Misty Mountains, Awakening lvl +400 and explorer reputation to access. The best place you can find is at azmar sands (+2500 explorers rep) you will probably want to farm at hydras because of the high amount of them that you can find.<BR> <BR>